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	Artful Dodge - Original Interviews - Jorge Luis Borges
		To talk closely to Jorge Luis Borges is to track him through a labyrinth of his pasts experiences and attitudes, and the walls that one encounters in the search might be painted in unexpected ways.
		This is the Jorge Luis Borges whom the Artful Dodge encountered on April 25, 1980.
		Borges: Well, the meaning is that the man was a hoodlum; he was a sharper.
	www.wooster.edu /artfuldodge/interviews/borges.htm (4681 words)

	Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges
		Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 24, 1899.
		Borges was reared in the then-shabby district of Palermo, the setting of some of his works.
		On June 14, 1986, at the age of 86, Jorge Luis Borges died of liver cancer in Geneva.
	www.myg-traducciones.com.ar /_english_jorge_luis_borges.asp (1499 words)

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		As I have shown elsewhere,[9] the visible scar in Borges has the value of marking a man for all the world to see as one who is brave and manly on the outside, but whose macho exterior is merely a mask disguising a deceitful and, therefore, feminine interior.
		As Borges himself made clear in his 1931 essay "Nuestras imposibilidades," among the Buenos Aires gangsters and hoodlums there is no shame for the "active" partner in "sodomy,"[14] "porque lo embromó al compañero" (Discusión 16-17) while it is only the "passive" partner who suffers dishonor and condemnation.
		In spite of Borges' objections and his attempts simultaneously to expose and disguise the nature of the relationship between the brothers, I have no doubt that there is a clear homosexual content in the story.
	lanic.utexas.edu /project/lasa95/brant.html (4255 words)

	Borges Center - Home - The University of Iowa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation is an academic organization based at The University of Aarhus in Denmark, dedicated to the research of works by J. Borges, and the study of themes and the style of thinking found in his work (a style that we call "transversal epistemologies".).
		Hence, the Borges Center is not exclusively devoted to the exegesis of Borges' writings, but principally to his way of reading: the way he reads the book, as a universe, the way he reads the universe, as book...
		The Borges Center is an academic center sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Iowa.
	www.uiowa.edu /borges/english.shtml (1882 words)

	Jorge Luis Borges - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, b.
		Borges, who brought the movement to Argentina, never adhered strictly to its tenets.
		Palermo, Sicilia: Jorge Luis Borges sotto il dipinto "la vucciria" di Renato Guttuso.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Borges-J.html (487 words)

	LitWeb.net
		From 1939 to 1946 Borges was a municipal librarian, but he was fired from his post by the Péron regime.Between 1946 and 1954 he was a poultry inspector for the Buenos Aires Municipal Market.During this period an attempt was made to bomb the house where Borges and his mother lived.
		Borges was also professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires, and taught there from 1955 to 1970.
		Borges see's man's search for meaning in an infinite universe absurd, he utilizes old myths to convey contemporary themes, and adds footnotes in order to feign authenticity or to mock erudition.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/borges_jorge_luis.html (1325 words)

	Jorge Luis Borges
		Borges was profoundly influenced by European culture, English literature, and such thinkers as Berkeley, who argued that there is no material substance; the sensible world consists only of ideas, which exists for so long as they are perceived.
		Borges has told in an interview that when he was a boy, he found an engraving of the seven wonders of the world, one of which portrayed a circular labyrinth.
		The Poetry and Poetics of Jorge Luis Borges
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /jlborges.htm (2495 words)

	Jorge Luis Borges Course
		Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was an Argentine writer who is probably most famous internationally for his ficciones.
		I love Borges for a few reasons: he's super attentive to each and every word in his short writings, to the degree that often changing just one word, even just substituting a synonym, changes drastically the whole web of implications.
		Borges, so rich in idea, is, for my taste, correspondingly poor in flesh and blood characters.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~scolas/Teaching/borges.htm (478 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fictions: Books: Jorge Luis Borges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		For Greeks, it was Homer; for Englishmen, it was Milton; for Argentinians, it was Jorge Luis Borges.
		Borges has always been disturbed by the idea that readers should always be 'active,' and not 'passive' as the great majority of readers are.
	www.amazon.ca /Fictions-Jorge-Luis-Borges/dp/2070366146 (2004 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Jorge Luis Borges
		The Borges family lived in Palermo, a neighbourhood at the outskirts of Buenos Aires which was a lower-class suburb historically famous for its cabarets, whorehouses, tango dancers and knife-fights among the compadritos or hoodlums.
		His father, Jorge Guillermo Borges, was a lawyer and a psychology teacher; his mother, Leonor Acevedo de Borges was a descendent of soldiers, so she kept her house ornamented with family artefacts such as swords, uniforms and portraits of great freedom fighters.
		Borges often remarked that his grandmother’s dry English wit was the origin of his concise style.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5127 (740 words)

	Jorge Luis Borges Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of Latin America's most original and influential prose writers and poets.
		Jorge Luis Borges was born on August 24, 1899, in Buenos Aires.
		Borges, himself, came close to death from septicemia, the complication of an infected head injury.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jorge-luis-borges (761 words)

	Salon Books \| Webmaster Borges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Borges writes that his fictional author "has (perhaps unwittingly) enriched the slow and rudimentary art of reading by means of a new technique -- the technique of deliberate anachronism and fallacious attribution.
		Canny Borges never names the Web, of course: As "The Garden of Forking Paths" points out, in a riddle whose answer is chess, the only word that cannot be used is "chess." But the meaning of his parables is specific and undeniable.
		For that matter, Borges' fictions, poems and articles are liberally hyperlinked to each other: His motifs of labyrinths and tigers and Dante appear again and again, coyly alluding to their sister pages.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/12/06/borges (1099 words)

	Borges
		Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson (Viking) (Paperback) Short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) revolutionized the literature of Latin America almost single-handedly and left a legion of readers and admirers worldwide.
		Borges' political philosophies and missteps are crucial elements as are his early artistic leanings toward the avant garde.
		Borges was the son of battling parents from opposing political parties and the grandson of some of Argentina's most revered military generals.
	www.wordtrade.com /literature/borgesR.htm (2992 words)

	Jorge Luis Borges ::
		Jorge Luis Borges was born on August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aries.
		Jorge Luis Borges is born in Buenos Aires.
		Borges appointed director of the National Library although he is now nearly blind.
	www.freewebs.com /brezza414 (974 words)

	Jorge Luis Borges - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Jorges Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and educated in Europe.
		Borges was Director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973.
		In a tribute to Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa wrote: 'His is a world of clear, pure, and at the same time unusual ideas...
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000004468,00.html (228 words)

	The My Hero Project - Jorge Luis Borges
		Peopled by men who dream their sons to life and jaguar temple gods lost in the Amazon, the universe Borges revealed through his short stories and poems was one of infinite variety and mysticism and one that left an indelible impression on many readers.
		In real life, Borges was something of a recluse, dabbling in politics but mainly spending his time in a dark Buenos Aires apartment with his mother and working as a librarian.
		Borges revolutionized the way fiction was written, using techniques and devices unheard of before his time.
	myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=jl_borges (964 words)

	UVa Special Collections Library: Collections
		One of the recently-acquired items in the Borges Collection is a nine-page manuscript acquired in 1996, "Viejo hábito argentino," which was published as "Nuestro pobre individualismo" in Otras Inquisiciones.
		Borges was born into a genteel upper-middle-class family in Buenos Aires.
		Although Borges spent several years in Geneva before 1918, followed by a period in Spain where he first encountered a literary vanguard known as Ultraism, it was not until his return to Argentina in 1921 that his career really began.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/collections/borges.html (693 words)

	Borges - Biography of J.L. Borges
		It was a legacy that Borges would absorb with all the passion of an intellectual outsider seeking to identify with the allure of the dangerorus and the socially misbegotten, and it cast its spell over much of Borges’ earliest work.
		Borges would later comment that the household was so bilingual that he was not even aware that English and Spanish were separate languages until later in his childhood.
		In 1950 Borges was elected President of the Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (The Argentine Writer’s Society.) The SADE had mainly political overtones – as in non-Peronista – and was under scrutiny.
	www.themodernword.com /borges/borges_biography.html (5574 words)

	Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations - Jorge Luis Borges
		Borges, blind in his later years, when he became an international success, spent much of his time on the international academic and publicity circuit.
		The interviews make a useful complement to Borges' own work, and to the biographies and critical studies, but by themselves they are of limited interest.
		Speaking of the series of detective novels he helped edit Borges' is quoted as saying "we went on to Michael Innis," where the author in question was, of course, Michael Innes.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/borgesjl/jlbcons.htm (732 words)

	Jorge Luis Borges & the plural I by Eric Ormsby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Borges was probably too intelligent to become a great poet, most of whom seem to have a certain saving stupidity in abundant supply.
		Borges the poet suffers when set beside Lorca (whom he detested as a “professional Andalusian”) or Neruda, or such brilliant compatriots as Lugones or Enrique Banchs, not because he necessarily possessed lesser gifts, but because he chose to write within an alien, and sharply circumscribed, tradition.
		Borges cites al-Mutanabbi’s verse elsewhere; it was of obvious importance to him.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/18/nov99/ormsby.htm (3441 words)

	Jorge Luis Borges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986), was an Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century.
		According to Canto, Borges' father had arranged a meeting between his son and a prostitute, out of a concern that a nineteen-year-old Argentine boy should not be a virgin.
		Not every instance of a woman in Borges is either as an object or as a part of what Daniel Balderston has called "the fecal dialectic."[2] The story "Ulrica" from The Book of Sand tells a romantic tale of heterosexual desire, love, trust and actual sex, though it may have been only a dream.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges (4077 words)

	Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works: Jorge Luis Borges
		But in all cases Borges' descriptions of his settings bear a master's hallmark: we feel we are reading description by a man who has been to the place of which he writes and has spent time there, whether the place is the block Borges actually lived on or ancient Arabia.
		Borges is, as we may expect from a master writer, highly skilled in the nuances with which the short-story writer quickly conveys to us what we need to know of his subjects' characters for them to assume, in our minds, their poses for the snapshot.
		Borges is a large figure on the stage of world literature: a search merely for his name will turn up reams of information, analysis, criticism, and suchlike.
	greatsfandf.com /AUTHORS/JorgeLuisBorges.php (2998 words)

	The My Hero Project - JORGE LUIS BORGES
		Borges fue un escritor argentino que construyó ficciones fuera de la vida cotidiana.
		Borges revolucionó la manera en que la ficción fue escrita, usando técnicas nuevas.
		Jorge Luis Borges : his fiction imagines alternative realities.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=jl_borges_e (913 words)

	Jorge Luis Borges - Quiz
		Title of the brief story by Borges in which a character turns his suicide into a heroic death by entering into a knife fight knowing he'll lose.
		The collaboration between Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most productive and lengthy in the history of literature.
		Borges liked to state that contemporary literature would be inconceivable without which two U.S. writers.
	www.barcelonareview.com /17/e_quiz_jlb.htm (406 words)

	Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
		Much of Borges' best is collected here -- from the brilliant idea behind Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote (in which part of Don Quixote is written anew), to the prototypical Borgesian story of books and infinity, The Library of Babel, to the haunting Funes, the Memorious and The South.
		Much of Borges is elsewhere -- in later collections (most notably The Aleph), as well as in his poetry and his non-fiction work (see our review of his Selected Non-Fictions) -- but this handy little volume collects many of Borges' finest and most memorable creations.
		Borges is a pleasure that can be hard to take in too large doses: his fictions are so dense and compact that they are best lingered over, and taking him up a few stories at a time seems preferable to plunging into the collected works.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/borgesjl/ficciones.htm (978 words)

	Jorge Luis Borges Biography and Summary
		Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's best-known writer, was born on 24 August 1899 in a traditional old house in central Buenos Aires (not far from today's financial district) and grew up in the neighborhood of Palermo.
		The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary world literature.
		Jorge Luis Borges (born August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; died June 14, 1986 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century.
	www.bookrags.com /Jorge_Luis_Borges (304 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Jorge Luis Borges - Books: Meet the Writers
		This legendary Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer's works have become classics of 20th-century world literature, leaving a legacy that serves as an enduring testament to the politics and passions of Jorge Luis Borges.
		In a lecture given at a Puerto Rican university, the 80-year-old Borges was philosophical about the blindness that overtook him slowly in his adulthood:
		Borges wrote a compelling foreword to Herbert Asbury's 1927 look at gang-ridden New York City at the turn of the century, recently brought to light once again by the blockbuster film adaptation by Martin Scorsese.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=14046&z=y (260 words)

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